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Inspired by "Meals you no longer eat." I'm currently sat drinking a thoroughly mediocre beer and it occurred to me I've not even seen Tetley cask since I left uni.
So, my starter for ten is cranberry Bacardi breezer. It was my go to in clubs and bars at uni when invariably the only beer they had was Crap Lager (TM) and spirits were either dusty bottles of premium(ish) with a two figure tag a measure or really only drinkable with mixers.
Budweiser. Why the hell did I drink that it’s awful.
Tomato juice.
Used to be addicted as a kid. Not on my radar now.
Quatro
Mad Dog 20/20
Cider that came in 2L bottles for some incredibly cheap price
Tenents lager.
WKD
Two Dogs
Top Deck
Panda Shandy (with Badger beer)
Quatro
Tab clear
Ward’s Best Bitter
This could go forever
Newcastle Brown. I used to drink it all the time when it was 50p a bottle at the university bar. Not touched it for 35 years probably.
Without wishing to sound like Alan Partridge, a decent pint of Best Bitter. The choice now seems to be sweet golden ales, paint stripper IPAs or stouts that taste like a Gummi bear has shagged one of the Lindt Easter bunnies.
snakebite
Snakebite and black... though that was the alcopop of the 80s. Don't think I've had one of them since I turned 18.
Thunderbird fortified wine. Drank a bit too much in the park at 12 years old (🙄). Ended up in hospital, after having my stomach pumped. Tried a small glass many years later, and my body hastily rejected it.
Also, snakebite. Not hospitalised by it, but very few memories of most of the nights out drinking it.
I drink much, much less nowadays!
Panda Shandy
Someone mentioned Safeway bon the supermarket thread, my over riding memory of Safeway is them refusing to sell my mother the Panda Shandy I'd added to the trolley 😂
Yeah snakebite and black was 1.30 a pint in the student's Union despite the lager or cider both being more expensive.
Without wishing to sound like Alan Partridge, a decent pint of Best Bitter
I'm a stout and porter drinker through and though but I do like a good pint of best, fortunately my village pub sells Tim Taylor's boltmaker which isn't half bad and my local ish brewery does a very drinkable best
Alcoholic ones.
Used to drink a fair bit of lilt too, not so much these days.
Tizer
Used to drink a fair bit of lilt too, not so much these days.
Lilt and lambs navy, I wonder if that's as drinkable as I remember?
Beer
Wine
Whiskey
🙁
Southern Comfort.
Apple juice after a teenage misadventure with an older woman and 6 litres of strongbow. That was over 25 years ago, still can't stomach the smell.
Stones bitter
That was over 25 years ago, still can’t stomach the smell.
Hadn't she washed?
^^ I shouldn't laugh but I did
It's Tennents
@dyna-ti you trumpet. Theres nothing wrong with a pint of this, only a matter of time before the middle class melts start waxing lyrical about it and leaving the the hippy IPA behind.
Meths...it's been at least two weeks now...
Many things.
Stuff I used to drink a lot in the past but haven't had for many years (for a variety of reasons)...
Vodka.
Rum.
Stout.
Tea.
(caffeinated) Coffee.
Cola.
Most lagers.
Cider.
These days I mostly stick to...
Water.
Lemonade.
Tonic water.
IPA style beers.
Wheat beer.
The occasional whisky.
Decaff coffee.
Honey and lemon.
Anything BrewDog. Used to treat myself to a locker full in the motorhome when travelling, now realised that I was taken in with the hype. Now discovered beers in tins (weight considerations) from Aldi and Lidl, brewed in Scotland and brilliant!
Tenents lager.
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It’s Tennents
@dyna-ti you trumpet. Theres nothing wrong with a pint of this,
I blame my really old keyboard. 🙂 and as to being nothing wrong with a pint of it, id agree. 6 pints when you're 15, i'd disagree 😆
Guinness - used to be one of my default drinks for years. Can't remember the last time I had a pint of the black stuff.
Mild - used to drink loads of Mild when I lived up North, sometimes as Mixed (half bitter half mild), but it must be over 30 years since I've had a sip of it. Does it still exist?
alcohol since 2004
Caffreys. As sold in mud-90s underage pub of choice, The Criterion in Bournemouth.
Cremola foam.
My gran used to give it to us a treat late 80s early 90s. Got a reproduction tin a couple of years ago, holy sweet mother of god it was rank. Also never thought at the time but because it used bicarb to get the fizz it's actually has a fair bit of sodium in it. So like treating your kid to an ultra sweet, salty, beta carotine laced sludge.
Lowenbrau on draught. Used to be everywhere Dandelion and burdock.
Corona soft drinks delivered to the house once a week.
Carling Premier.
Instant coffee
Horlicks (seem to have grown a distaste for malt)
Real Ales (see above)
A bitter shandy: 50% bitter, 50% ginger beer. This sounds weird but is a very refreshing drink!
Banks Mild Ale, 98p a pint in The Swan
Corona soft drinks delivered to the house once a week.
You must be posh, we used to have Council Pop
Smirnoff ice
Hooch
Vodka red bull,(used to be ten shots of vodka and two cans of red bull in a jug for a tenner in our local)
Carling
Southern comfort
Iron bru
Tizer
Red stripe
Mild and vimto.
Black & Tans (a working mans cocktail: 1/2 pint heavy and a bottle of stout)
X0 shillings (X is 7 or 8 iirc). And Mcewens in general.
Tequila (you think I’m a dick now? You should see me after some tequila 😳).
Instant coffee.
Pepsi anything. Not that I drink much of any kind of cola.
Ah Cremola foam. Like birds angels delight, a taste of the 70’s.
Leffe
Nothing wrong with it but there are so many nicer beers out there and so little time
Hofmeister. 12 cans for a fiver at University. My younger self prized quantity over quality.
Newcastle Brown Ale swore I would never drink another bottle after closing the Brewery in the toon.
Agreed Budweiser is rank my go to bottle in my twenties (god only knows why)
Pernod, god how I cannot stand the stuff after getting drunk some 30 years ago on it.
Skol Super when I was a student. Why?!? WHY!??!!?!
"Just one more...." stopped that when kids came along, sticking to my limits definitely a wise choice
Forgot to add, MrsMC once slept through a Shamen set at Glastonbury on the front row. She also starts heaving at the smell of Southern Comfort. The two may be related....
Kool-Aid: pure chemically goodness
V8 Juice: so, so good!
Guinness: I just can’t get interested in stouts anymore
Slalom D lager.
Head banging stuff.
Lilt
Shandy bass
Breast milk
Barley cup
Chicory
Green monsters
Bottle of pils/bottle of diamond white with a blue bols turned the pint green, only needed a couple of pints of that 🥴
Southern Comfort
That reminded me that I got very sick on this when I was a teenager and ever since then even the smell of it made me feel sick, so I've not gone near it since.
I over indulged with various alcoholic drinks in my youth but for some reason that flicked a switch in my brain.
Newcastle Brown
Sherry
I could still enjoy sherry*, but not the other.
*Although doubtfully in a responsible fashion. Have never been a ‘drinker’ as such, but for some reason sherry proved like a ‘gateway’ for me. Got overly partial to it once (decades ago) and had to dial it back (ie quit buying the stuff) as had noticed that a feeling of invincibility was forming, and life started going grape-shaped, with a magical warm glow. I did begin to like that magical warm glow, but having lived around a few alcoholics I recognised the signs. A narrow escape 😳
Am typically a pint and half of bitter (a week) or hoppy session ale type of lightweight. So the mega-moreish daily sherry or three was a complete curveball.
I see some commonality here:
Southern Comfort
Newcastle Brown
Thunderbird
I’ll also add:
Gin - can’t understand the popularity. It’s like somebody put vodka through a sodastream and then added a urinal cake to the mix.
Special Brew, Tenants Super, Kestrel Super
Scotch Whiskey
Pretty much all of the alcopops mentioned, but more because I'm not going clubbing and in my 20s any more.
Also used to be
Clan Dew
Ouzo
Red Aftershock (had a very rough night drinking that and never touched it since)
Pernot
Malibu
They were my youth to 30 something drinks and not really felt the desire to drink any of them since, as on the whole I don't drink alcohol at all any longer.
Would like to drink - Fanta, Dr Pepper, 7-Up and a few other soft drinks but the do gooders have taken all the sugar out and I don't get on with the aftertaste of sweeteners.
Only soft drink left is full fat Coca-Cola, but don't drink that unless out as it is like nectar.
Southern Comfort
That reminded me that I got very sick on this when I was a teenager and ever since then even the smell of it made me feel sick, so I’ve not gone near it since
+1. A popular unpopular drink, as it were. 🙂
Inches Stonehouse cider, came in three litre bottles.
Had a drawing of David Gower on the label.
Mixed with Special Brew or Tennents Super usually, Kestrel Super if desperate.
Often with a couple of grams of speed mixed if an all nighter was on the cards.
Walked home from Wigan once after a particularly messy do. 🙂
Scotch Whiskey
That’s nae Scotch nor whisky. That’s whiskey.
Harp - the only larger in Ireland at the time
Fosters - just tastes of chemicals now
Moscow Mule - alcopop of choice
Newcastle Brown - a student thing. The farts could strip wallpaper.
Only soft drink left is full fat Coca-Cola
Actually can add all of those horrid things to my list. I used to chill a cherry cola until was virtually ice then add more ice - it was refreshingly brainfreezy on a really hot day. Otherwise it really just helped me sink a load of crisps or snax. Enjoyed Tango, Appletize (?) Cresta Ice Cream Soda and Quattro as a kid.
tbh I prefer a fruit juice or some natural cordial, (carbonated or still), or a virgin mojito sort of thing (even lemon juice and ice in water) and so not drinking all of those SugarCorp Aspartame Caffeine Inc feels normal. A glass of clean water is nicer, tbh!
As mentioned above - newcastle brown, bud, pernod, malibu.
Others...grolsch, stella, federation (fed) special - was much favoured in NE working men's clubs, guinness.
Moray cup
Liebfraumilch, Blue Nun ( a version of the former), mateus
Murphy's stout
Lager
Marshs sass 😢
I thought this would be more about drinks that cause flashbacks than just gone out of date, so on that basis
Pernod - for years after the smell of it got the saliva gland under the tounge flooding in anticipation of vomiting. Even aniseed balls, or fennel, or practically the thought was enough. Obvs after a bad experience
Whisky. Three shots for a quid in Mary's bar at Durham Uni. With mixer, but we thought drinking neat whisky made us look like gangsters. 7 quid later (so just under a pint of fluid) was ejected from my stomach. But that wasn't it.... endless retching with nothing to come, I pulled every muscle in my abdominal girdle and digestive sytem, and still the retching came. An horrific night. I quite enjoy a whisky now but it's a dog I know has teeth and a temper.
Not in the same league - but Sat nights after a game was football club night out. Compulsory Special Brew - 1080 snakebite as your first pint. Got the party started, so to speak.
We also had 'Pitman's pint' named after one of our more enthusiastic players (to quote the manager - no amount of hard work makes up for a sheer lack of talent) and was awarded to the shittest performance/moment of the day, and consisted of a mix of donations, slops, spirits, and frequently garnished with a handful of freshly plucked pubes. Votes were then taken as to whether the pint was downed by the 'winner' or the eponymous owner. I've not had a 'Pitman's Pint' for more than 30 years, and I won't be breaking that streak.....
Meths…it’s been at least two weeks now…
I decided to taste meths once, a singer drop on my finger to my tongue, shitting hell that would be a tough drink.
White spirit on the other hand when i took a big swig, I only really twigged it wasn't the bottle of water i was expecting because it wasn't cold.
I sumation, given the choice, white spirit and lemonade please.
Ribena - Loved it as a kid but bought a bottle a while back and wondered what all the fuss was about
Instant coffee
But tea is the other way, couldn't bear it when I was young. Didn't start drinking it until my 20s
Dairy milk - that's for baby cows
Beers
Wife beater. It was amazingly one of the least worse beers in some pubs I used to frequent.
Corona with a lime. I loved that stuff. I now have no idea why.
San Miguel and Kronenburg - both give me a headache before I have finished the first
Turbo snakebite made with K cider - we all would have one at home before a night at the student union at uni
Wine
Stuff you had to hold you nose to be able to get it down
Martini - thanks to a hospital incident
Neat gin - see above
Sherry - see above
Pernod - One sniff and I'd puke even now.
Jager bombs, used to be a weekly thing in my late 20s haven’t had one in years
Vodka lime/soda, again another Out Out drink.
Smirnoff Ice, used to drink it like water as a student
Stella - at 4.6% it’s a shadow of its former 5.2% self, and the world of beer has moved on.
These days it’s just ****y craft beer on the sofa
Tequila-based cocktails. Yes they taste nice and slip down. But bloody hell, next day ….
Parents used to give us this muck called Shloer when they were having their Liebfraumilsch. Haven’t touched it since the 70s. just checked and it actually still exists
Tetley's, had some for the first time in 20 years in the Adelphi in Leeds a few weeks ago.
No longer drink;
Metz
Smirnoff Ice
Smirnoff Red
Tennants Super Ice - it was passable when very cold otherwise it was grim.
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Vodka, couldn't touch the stuff now, too many late teen experiences of it coming back up in a yellow throat burning eruption.
Pernod and black(current), yummy when 17, not so much so when 50+
Southern comfort : It's like whiskey mixed with sugar, used to love it, now it's vile.
On the flip side, drinks I hated that I now like
Decent Whiskey (and Whisky)
Wine
Bovril
Chicken Bovril (yum yum)
When I started uni in Dundee, there was a price war on vodka & coke, which gradually went down (over a few weeks) to 19p.
Can’t go near the stuff now and haven’t for 20 years.
Similar, Vodka and red bull used to be a staple weekend thing 25yrs ago but I’ve only got to sniff it now and it makes me feel sick.
Whtie Lightning. I discovered that Bargain booze didn't just sell the 7.5% stuff for 2 quid for 2 litres but did a 12.5% version for the same price. Battery acid but a drop of lemonade helped.
My wife though won't allow it in the house and I have to drink the awful Stowfords that she buys by the slab for a camper van trip then doesn't touch.
GL. 2 bottles of that to a teenage party was the way to go. You might get a snog from some lass who had finished her bottles before you.
Power shandies; bottle of lager and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice. Bliss.
Mild – used to drink loads of Mild when I lived up North, sometimes as Mixed (half bitter half mild), but it must be over 30 years since I’ve had a sip of it. Does it still exist?
I was wondering the exact same thing recently- was never really really fixture after I moved north of the border anyway - but seemed to be a perennial favourite of both students and pensioners as it was usually the cheapest booze on tap.
Slops
As a 17 year old I played rigby for our local village team as did my 15 year old brother. Of course we couldn't buy beers but we could drink the drip trays so we did. Out of a glass I hasten to add.
Midori
Advocaat
Dry Martini
Sweet Martini
Vodka
Rum
Brandy
Any type of soda/pop.
Lager, beer, ale, etc
Power shandies; bottle of lager and a bottle of Smirnoff Ice. Bliss
We called these turbo shandies. Lethal!
GL
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